World in the Mind -- Roundtable of Legal Intentional Philosophers

Author: I. Broiler
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Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The Round Table of French and Italian Philosophers introduces contemporary French and Italian thought. The writers introduced here play a decisive role in contemporary philosophical debates, most of whom belong to the generation that lived during the war. The world has never begun with humans and will end without humans. After Descartes, French philosophy has always appeared in a somewhat heretical manner; contemporary French philosophers even raise the issue of modernity to an unprecedented level of sharpness, with the core argument being a critique of rationality. In the 1980s, French philosophy again dominated the debates on postmodernity. On the one hand, it condemned various irrational tendencies; on the other hand, it celebrated the destruction of metaphysics. The intrinsic temperament of French and Italian philosophy is so full of contradictions. The Round Table of French and Italian Philosophers poses an unresolved question: How did this spirit become a vibrant driving force, pushing the changes in the world of thought?